Son gets 8 years in foiled plot to kill dad

News-Times, The (Danbury, CT)

Published
8:00 pm EDT, Friday, July 13, 2007

The son, Stephen DiMartino, 30, of North Branford, was sentenced Friday for hiring a friend to kill his father so he could gain a seven-figure inheritance. In May, DiMartino agreed to plead guilty to first-degree attempted assault, but on Friday he had hoped to fight for a lesser sentence.

Police said DiMartino hired Louis Dellavalle, 18, of New Haven, to go to Frank DiMartino's North Madison home and kill him, but the hit man got cold feet.

When Dellavalle, the brother of Stephen DiMartino's fianc�e, came face to face with the elder DiMartino, police said, he reportedly told him that he could not go through with the deed and admitted Stephen DiMartino had hired him. The father immediately called the police.